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/ 13 February 2006
Banks in Zimbabwe must not enter into contracts with white commercial farmers without asking the government first, the official Sunday Mail reported. National Security Minister Didymus Mutasa said some financial institutions were ”denying new [black] farmers loans … on the basis that the white commercial farmers had title deeds of the farms as collateral,” the paper reported.
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/ 13 February 2006
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Transvaal Judge President Bernard Ngoepe demanded to know what corruption and rape had in common as he heard an application for his own recusal from the rape trial of former deputy president Jacob Zuma on Monday. Herman Broodryk, a member of the prosecution team, said Ngoepe had not made a credibility finding about Zuma when he granted the search warrants.
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/ 13 February 2006
Perhaps there won’t be so much controversy this time. The last Olympic pairs competition ended with a scoring scandal and gold medals awarded to two couples as officials scurried to make things right. This year, with a new scoring system, the short programme went off without a hitch ahead of Monday’s final.
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/ 13 February 2006
The Department of Minerals and Energy could implement a retail petrol-price cut of about 12 cents per litre (c/l) on March 1, given recent trends in both the rand exchange rate and oil prices. The retail petrol price is adjusted monthly on the first Wednesday of the month in accordance with the previous averaging period’s over- or under-recovery.
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/ 13 February 2006
Money doesn’t buy happiness, and now there’s a study to prove it. Australian researchers found that people in well-off Sydney are among the most miserable in the country, while those in some of the poorest areas are much more satisfied with their lives.
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/ 13 February 2006
Researchers scouring the remote forests of the African island nation of Madagascar have found that tiny assassin spiders, grotesque-looking bugs that prey on other spiders, are more diverse than previously thought. Assassin spiders, which grow to less than 0,3cm long, are notorious for stabbing helpless spiders with their sharp, venom-filled fangs.
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/ 13 February 2006
Here lies the forgotten history of New York. And here. And over there. All across the city’s five boroughs, old cemeteries are tucked away, some visible but ignored by passers-by, some in the shadow of latter-day high-rises, some so remote as to be overlooked entirely.
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/ 13 February 2006
The South African Treasury should set aside about R1,1-billion a year to increase the pace of land reform and protect the principle of willing buyer, willing seller, says the official opposition Democratic Alliance in its alternative Budget released ahead of Wednesday’s national Budget by Minister of Finance Trevor Manuel.
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/ 13 February 2006
Trade unions locked in a dispute with state-owned Transnet over restructuring have postponed their strike in the Eastern Cape until Friday to give the labour structures in the province enough time to finalise logistics and other outstanding issues, it emerged on Monday.
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/ 13 February 2006
It was 1894, and the chief physician at the Battle Creek Sanatorium and his younger brother were experimenting in the hospital’s kitchen, trying to create a better-tasting replacement for the nutritious but bland bread served to patients. Instead, Dr John Harvey Kellogg and William Keith Kellogg ended up accidentally inventing flaked cereal.